Observation, Performance and Revolution

Following up on Marcus's seminal article on cinema and ethnography [1995 Marcus , George 1995 The Modernist Sensibility in Recent Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor of Montage . In Fields of Vision. Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology and Photography . Leslie Devereaux and Richard Hillman , eds. Pp. 2 – 12 . Berkeley : University of California Press . [Google Scholar]] and weaving together anthropology, film theory and the analysis of four films—from the ethnographic, commercial, art and documentary genres—I argue that cinema can open a democratic and egalitarian space of observation of and interaction with “the other” and that anthropologists should approach their subjects in ways similar to some other filmmakers. But unlike Marcus, who considers films as metaphors of ethnography and advocates a posture of modernist distance, I look for juxtapositions between film and anthropology and, extending the Surrealist notion of “the double” across the fields of politics and aesthetics, I argue for a humanist anthropology, one that celebrates the dual nature of humans and cinema

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• The Third Eye

  Fatimah Tobing Rony•Third Eye•1996

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• The Modernist Sensibility in Recent Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor of Montage

  Open Access•George E Marcus•Society for Visual Anthropology…•1990

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• The Politics of Aesthetics

  Open Access•John Walker, John A Walker•The Art Book•2005

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• Fields of Vision

  Open Access•Toby Miller•Visual Anthropology Review•1995

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• Understanding Event Analysis Using the Films of Timothy Asch

  Open Access•Alexander Moore•Visual Anthropology Review•1995

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• The Challenges of a Pioneer

  Open Access•Wilton Martínez•Visual Anthropology Review•1995

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• The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man

  Martha Blassnigg•Leonardo•2006

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• Out of Sync

  Open Access•Jay Ruby•Visual Anthropology Review•1995

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• Divine Horsemen

  Open Access•George M Epple•American Anthropologist•1982

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• Man and the Sacred

  Joseph G Green, Roger Caillois et al.•The American Catholic Sociological…•1959

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• The Cinematic Griot

  Peter Loizos, P Stoller•Man•1993

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• The Ax Fighton CD-ROM

  Peter Biella•Visual Anthropology•1998

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